Brahim,Getting the root Nemo (and Synaptic) to use your theme colors is simple.When you open those programs, you are no longer operating as user, you are operating as root. That is why they are not using your theme.All you have to do is create a link in /usr/share/themes like this:

I've been doing something similar - experimenting with the colors of Mint-X gtk3 (Controls) theme.

It looks like you're nearly there - but you're combining a couple of different methods to do it.

You can have a look at a tutorial I made from my notes (these were made in LM16 Cinnamon).Keep in mind, I'm no expert - this is just what I did with my "experiments" and may not be perfect - but you may get something from it (?)

EDIT: These tutorials only deal with changing the colors of the Mint-X gtk theme (Controls) - not the cinnamon theme (panel, menu etc.).The instructions are specific to Linux Mint 16 Cinnamon

I didn't use gnome-color-chooser, so using it (in combination with the notes above) may "confuse" things.

PS. As for the metacity theme:I downloaded your .zip file, extracted it and just copied the folder metacity-1 to my current gtk theme folder (I renamed the existing metacity-1 folder to metacity-2)logged out/in to get this:

You should be able to tweak it some more to remove the colored window bar. I'll have a go myself, later ....

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Part 2 of the tutorial will show you how - you need to edit some image files as well to change the background color in the theme completely.For one example, menubarbg.png in your theme's gtk-2.0/Bars folder.

Then you should get this -

But unless you follow all of the tutorials, you might not change all the grey background color throughout the theme - the results won't look like thepicture above.

I would be glad to help out. unfortunately unless you need art I'm not your guy. I can only make tiny tweaks to themes, Usually by going to the original designer, or just getting lucky. Thats why I never implemented any of my ideas for mint myself.

Now on to the Ideas.

I like your work so far. Just one thing though. I would change the flat color to a Gradient. Top Down Light to Dark. Because you are using the forum colors something like this

Edit: These themes are gtk themes (Controls). They do not include a matching cinnamon theme - they just have the default Mint-X cinnamon theme in the theme folder.They are also for use with LM16 Cinnamon - they may not display properly in previous/future versions of Linux Mint or with other desktop environments.

hexdef101 wrote:I would be glad to help out. unfortunately unless you need art I'm not your guy. I can only make tiny tweaks to themes, Usually by going to the original designer, or just getting lucky. Thats why I never implemented any of my ideas for mint myself.

Now on to the Ideas.

I like your work so far. Just one thing though. I would change the flat color to a Gradient. Top Down Light to Dark. Because you are using the forum colors something like this

We are left with the background section (mint-blu2) on gtk3 and we are done with two parts of the theme (gtk3+cinnamon) We should end up with something ;ike the screenshot below(made with gnome colour chooser):